Ergebnis für "The Memory of Light" in Geschichte

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace. “One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The...

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose...

In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world.

More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.

This podcast explores the Vietnam Veterans' Commemorative Walk in Seymour, Victoria, Australia and talks to Australian participants, protesters against the war, Vietnamese survivors and memorial designers, about the impact one of the most divisive modern wars has had on a generation and on society at large.Credits; Fiona Gruber, producer, writer and narrator.Melissa May, sound engineerLynne Dore, project manager, Glaas IncBronwyn Hughes, Art and history consultant, Glaas IncDonna Kennedy, Director, Glaas IncDavid Smith, cover photographMade on behalf of Glaas Inc with a Victoria Remembers ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations "Thomson makes visible the ghosts of the Great War, untangling themes of loss...